Celebrities help lift eating disorder stigma

Compiled by Dana Guthrie

Katie Couric talked about her college struggles with bulimia
on her show, “Katie.” She said she recovered when she was about 24 years old. “I
know this rigidity, this feeling that if you eat one thing that’s wrong, you’re
full of self-loathing and then you punish yourself, whether it’s one cookie or
a stick of gum that isn’t sugarless, that I would sometimes beat myself up for
that.”

Katie Couric talked about her college struggles with bulimia
on her show, “Katie.” She said she recovered when she was about 24 years old. “I
know this rigidity, this feeling that if you eat one thing that’s wrong, you’re
full of self-loathing and then you punish yourself, whether it’s one cookie or
a stick of gum that isn’t sugarless, that I would sometimes beat myself up for
that.”